Plotting the graph of the quadratic function and examining the roles of the parameters in the function of the form
Plotting the graph of the quadratic function and examining the roles of the parameters in the function of the form
– the coefficient of .
– the coefficient of .
– the constant term.
Determine the value of the coefficient \( a \) in the following equation:
\( -x^2+7x-9 \)
Let's present the quadratic function and understand the meaning of each parameter in it.
– the coefficient of
- -determines if the parabola will be a maximum or minimum parabola (sad or smiling) - determines the steepness – its width.
must be different from 0.
If is positive – the parabola is a minimum parabola – smiling
If is negative – the parabola is a maximum parabola – sad
The larger is – the narrower the function will be and vice versa.
- the coefficient of
can be any number
indicates the position of the parabola along with .
determines the slope of the function at the intersection point with the axis
(not relevant to the material)
– the constant term
is not dependent on
can be any number
indicates the position of the parabola along with
determines the y-intercept
responsible for the vertical shift of the function
Wonderful. Now, let's move on to plotting the quadratic function.
Let's see an example -
In the following function:
What is the value of the coefficient \( b \) in the equation below?
\( 3x^2+8x-5 \)
What is the value of the coefficient \( c \) in the equation below?
\( 4x^2+9x-2 \)
\( y=x^2 \)
Determine the value of the coefficient in the following equation:
The quadratic equation in the problem is already arranged (meaning all terms are on one side and 0 on the other side), so let's proceed to answer the question asked:
The question asked in the problem - What is the value of the coefficient in the equation?
Let's recall the definitions of coefficients in solving quadratic equations and the roots formula:
The rule states that the roots of an equation of the form:
are:
That is the coefficient is the coefficient of the quadratic term (meaning the term with the second power)- Let's examine the equation in the problem:
Remember that the minus sign before the quadratic term means multiplication by: , therefore- we can write the equation as:
The number that multiplies the , is hence we identify that the coefficient of the quadratic term is the number ,
Therefore the correct answer is A.
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What is the value of the coefficient in the equation below?
The quadratic equation of the given problem is already arranged (that is, all the terms are found on one side and the 0 on the other side), thus we approach the given problem as follows;
In the problem, the question was asked: what is the value of the coefficientin the equation?
Let's remember the definitions of coefficients when solving a quadratic equation as well as the formula for the roots:
The rule says that the roots of an equation of the form
are :
That is the coefficientis the coefficient of the term in the first power -We then examine the equation of the given problem:
That is, the number that multiplies
is
Consequently we are able to identify b, which is the coefficient of the term in the first power, as the number,
Thus the correct answer is option d.
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What is the value of the coefficient in the equation below?
The quadratic equation is given as . This equation is in the standard form of a quadratic equation, which is , where , , and are coefficients.
From this analysis, we can see that the coefficient is .
Therefore, the value of the coefficient in the equation is .
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To solve this problem, let's follow these steps:
Now, let's work through these steps:
Step 1: The standard form of a quadratic function is . Our goal is to identify , , and .
Step 2: We are given the function . This can be aligned with the standard form as .
Step 3: By comparing the given function with the standard form, we can deduce:
- The coefficient of is 1, so .
- The linear term coefficient is missing, which implies .
- There is no constant term, so .
Therefore, the coefficients are , corresponding to choice 1.
Here we have a quadratic equation.
A quadratic equation is always constructed like this:
Where a, b, and c are generally already known to us, and the X and Y points need to be discovered.
Firstly, it seems that in this formula we do not have the C,
Therefore, we understand it is equal to 0.
a is the coefficient of X², here it does not have a coefficient, therefore
is the number that comes before the X that is not squared.